HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE HOLY THURSDAY MARCH 28th 7:00 P.M– MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER IN UPPER CHURCH TRANSFER OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT TO REPOSITORY AND PRIVATE ADORATION UNTIL 10:00 P.M. GOOD FRIDAY MARCH 29th 9:00 A.M. – MORNING PRAYER IN LOWER CHURCH 12 NOON – 3:00 P.M. PRIVATE ADORATION IN UPPER CHURCH 3:00 P.M. – GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY HOLY SATURDAY MARCH 30th 9:00 A.M. – MORNING PRAYER IN LOWER 7:00 P.M. – EASTER VIGIL MASS IN UPPER CHURCH EASTER SUNDAY MARCH 31st 8:30 A.M. – MASS IN LOWER CHURCH 11:00 A.M. – MASS IN UPPER CHURCH |
Today’s Scripture |
In the gospel, the women came to anoint and bury Jesus and found an empty tomb. They ran to tell the disciples to announce the astounding news. It was a difficult time for everyone. A terrible time. Jesus crucified! The death of all their hopes and dreams, and the shame that they had run away, leaving him to suffer and die alone… except, of course, for his mother and few friends. And yet in his final agony, Jesus was heard to say from the cross: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” It was to be his final gesture of self-sacrificing love and service to us. The Savior of the World, and we are unable to raise a hand to save him. “Lord have mercy on us all.” A poet once wrote about the two arms of God: the right arm of Justice, and Justice must be served, and the left arm of Mercy, Mercy, that forgives. And when Jesus cries out on the cross, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do,” his Father is left no choice, for his son has asked for mercy and for forgiveness for us all. Today we do not celebrate Jesus rising from the dead to go back to some heaven from where he came. We celebrate something more. Jesus comes to stay. He comes to share his life with us, not to teach us how to die and leave us, but how to live and love in this often sad and weary world. That is why the Father gives His only Son into our hands, that we might never be alone again, without his loving care. Jesus knows our aches and pains and all our sorrows too, our need to love and to be loved, to reach out and care for one another as he himself has always cared for us. Jesus has promised us “to be with us always” and we’ll never be alone again. “Blessed be the name of the Lord.” |
Please pray for our sick that they may receive God’s healing strength: Teresa Morone, Albert Ferranti, Marisa Della Pia, Dom Dinella, Sarah Wallace, Marie Devlin, James Curci, Susan and Frank Addis, Eileen McClain, Grace Jones, Brian Ligato, Danielle Peters, Marie and Hugh Quigley, Geraldine DiDonato, Pam Casey, Gerri Liberato-Abbott, Louie DiBruno, Michael Cornaglia, Sr., Karen Specht, Angel Scorza, Tom and Linda Sammaritano, Sister Peg, Stephanie Sinex, Shawn Keefe, Maria Dattilo, Ashleigh Leone, Tommy Van Horn Jr., Fr. Casey, Mary Young, Rose Campolongo, Landon Reid, Annette Slattery, Anna Musolino, Joann Auld, Pat Kennedy, Sr. Francine OSF, Constance DeMayo, Robert Federico, Tom Rucci
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